> [SEELANGS] songs and games in the classroom

[Ashot Vardanyan]

Dear Mr. Langran,

I'm teaching with your textbook at the University of Iowa and want to assure you that my audience only welcomes and enjoys the language acting out. Please don't drop the games and similar activities. At least here in Iowa my Americans are absolutely not rigid!!!

Ashot Vardanyan



03/31 21:41 John Langran <john at RUSLAN.CO.UK> wrote:
> Dear colleagues
> 
> A couple of further queries for the adaptation of my Ruslan course
> for the
> US market. I would be grateful if those teaching beginners Russian
> have time
> to respond.
> 
> 1.
> Do you like using language games that involve students moving around
> the
> classroom talking to each other in Russian? I have been encouraged to
> drop
> these from my US edition, as your classrooms are perhaps more
> "rigid" than
> ours in the UK. But I am not sure of this advice, and I want to check
> it.
> Example of such a game for beginners in the first few lessons of a
> beginners
> course.
> They already know - Izvinite! Ya-  Vy - Da - Net, and a few other
> necessary
> words.
> - students choose a profession - either inzhener, muzikant or
> zhurnalist.
> They don't tell anyone who they are.
> - they then have to get up from their seats and regroup in 3 groups,
> all the
> engineers together, etc, using Russian only. Teacher stays on hand to
> help
> with vocab etc as needed.
> 
> 2.
> Will there be any resistance from teachers to the idea of fun songs
> for
> learners using popular Russian tunes with new words? There is an
> example of
> such a song to the tune of "Iz-za ostrova na strezhen" at
> http://www.ruslan.co.uk/songs/Iz_aeroporta_v_centr.wmv - only low
> quality,
> the song is being recorded properly next week. It has been suggested
> that
> some teachers will see this as a mockery, but I think that the
> memorable
> context is a good aid to learning. There are likely to be 4 or 5 such
> items
> in the new book.
> 
> Thanks for any feedback
> 
> John Langran
> www.ruslan.co.uk
> 
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